Ubuntu/apt/mvwire problem

@astrashe3:

Or to tell the system not to configure it?

Perhaps you might try a KDE (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metap … tu-desktop">http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metapackages/kubuntu-desktop) or X (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metap … tu-desktop">http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metapackages/xubuntu-desktop) desktop install instead of ubuntu-desktop?

James

If mvwire is a package, you can edit /etc/apt/preferences (or create it if it doesn’t exist) and add the following (separated from any existing content by a blank line):

Package: mvwire
Pin: version 1.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

@zunzun:

Perhaps you might try a KDE (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metap … tu-desktop">http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metapackages/kubuntu-desktop) or X (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metap … tu-desktop">http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/metapackages/xubuntu-desktop) desktop install instead of ubuntu-desktop?

James

Thanks… I probably should try KDE -- everyone says its better.

@pclissold:

If mvwire is a package, you can edit /etc/apt/preferences (or create it if it doesn’t exist) and add the following (separated from any existing content by a blank line):

Package: mvwire
Pin: version 1.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Thanks! That's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to learn… I knew apt had to let you get around these problems.

@astrashe3:

I probably should try KDE – everyone says its better.

The standard desktop stinks compared to KDE - I'm talking fish in the sun stinky, too. KDE rocks.

James

The /apt/preferences thing didn't work – that technique would prevent an upgrade, but since the package hadn't been installed yet (I misidentified it here -- it's mvdial), ubuntu-desktop failed.

It turns out, though, that you can just press control-C when the package starts to configure, but before it hangs. The system moves to the next package.

It hung again when it tried to start CUPS, and I wasn't sure how to get around that.

KDE won't install either. It contains the same mvdial package, and hangs later on.

I'm falling back to an ugly strategy -- I'm going to do a clean ubuntu install on a physical box, disable whatever services look potentially troublesome (ie., connected to hardware that doesn't exist in UML), and upload the whole file system to my VPS.

This is undesirable mostly because the upload will be really slow, and I'm not confident it will work.

If that doesn't work, I'll have to get serious, and focus on getting an Ubuntu desktop up and running under UML at home.

Thanks to both of you guys for your help… if I get this to work, I'll post more about it.

@astrashe3:

I'm falling back to an ugly strategy – I'm going to do a clean ubuntu install on a physical box, disable whatever services look potentially troublesome (ie., connected to hardware that doesn't exist in UML), and upload the whole file system to my VPS.

This may help once you're ready to file it up to your Linode:

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Cu … stribution">http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Custom_Distribution

-Chris

> This may help once you're ready to file it up to your Linode:

Thanks… that would have definitely tripped me up.